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"Health insurance exchanges will become available in a couple of weeks, but questions over access and cost continue.Click here to watch News 9's report.On Oct. 1, qualifying New Hampshire residents will be able to enroll in the state-based insurance exchange created under the Affordable Care Act.Anthem Blue Cros and Blue Shield of New Hampshire is the only participating carrier in the exchange, and it is facing questions over its limited provider network. Frisbie Memorial Hospital President Alvin Felgar said he's outraged his hospital isn't part of Anthem's plan.\"Why are people having to give up their doctors?\" he said. \"Why are charity hospitals that have been around 75, 100 years being unilaterally excluded from Obamacare? This is not fair.\"But Anthem argued that there had to be a tradeoff, conceding some access for plan affordability, and that geography is a big part of it.\"How could we meet access requirements across the state and all counties with a smaller number of hospitals?\" said Anthem President Lisa Guertin. \"Where do we need those hospitals to be?\"As for the individual plans, Anthem will offer 11 options, with costs based largely on age and income. Current estimates show that as many as 30,000 New Hampshire residents could to take part, but opponents of the plan expect that number to go up.\"A year from now, it's going to be a lot more, I think, as the small group market comes into Obamacare and the individual market is going to have to expand because businesses are going to be forced to drop employee coverage,\" said Sen. Jeb Bradley, R-Wolfeboro.As it stands now, Anthem is the only carrier in the marketplace. As such, the company finds itself walking the line between educating people about what its plans offer and fending off critics of the health care law itself.\"We were as surprised as anyone that we are the only ones out there, so I guess we've become that spokesman, that poster child,\" Guertin said.One reason Anthem may be the only carrier participating in the exchange is that New Hampshire's small size might not be attractive to other insurers. But officials said that next year, other carriers, such as Harvard Pilgrim, may join the marketplace."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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